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Horseradish - what is the use and what to do with it?

Horseradish - what is the use and what to do with it?

Botanists call this plant horseradish ordinary or village horseradish. It has been known almost as long as garlic. Already 4 thousand years ago horseradish was eaten and used as a remedy. The mustard essential oil gives it a burning taste.

As a food product, it is a unique plant. Even a small amount of horseradish, eaten in the form of a seasoning, covers the lack of vitamins in the body. In addition, the horseradish root contains a lot of phytoncides, nitrogenous substances, essential oils, rare, but necessary for the body, sulfur. And most importantly - mineral salts, especially potassium, calcium and sodium.

Daily requirement the body of an adult in these elements is approximately as follows. We need sodium 4-5 g daily, potassium 2.7-5.8 g, calcium - 0.5 g, sulfur -1 g. However, with heavy loads, after a serious illness, as well as during pregnancy, the need for these elements increases.

Potassium-sodium balance in the body is extremely important. High consumption of table salt easily upsets this balance. Table salt contains 39 thousand units of sodium at 0 units of potassium.

The body collects potassium like a stingy knight, but table salt, even in the smallest doses, nullifies all its efforts. But the organic sodium contained in horseradish and other plants does not violate the potassium-sodium balance.

To cleanse the body from excess mucus nutritionists recommend to use grated horseradish with lemon: for 150 g of horseradish gruel - juice of 2-3 lemons. Take 2 times a day, half a teaspoon on an empty stomach and in between meals. Healing horseradish sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for no longer than a week.

At first, taking horseradish with lemon causes some tearing, but the horseradish treatment should be continued for at least two weeks, and then a course of treatment with carrot juice in combination with radish juice is carried out in order to remove from the body the mucus that has dissolved thanks to the horseradish. This procedure also restores the normal functioning of all mucous membranes in the body.

BTW
The famous historian and popularizer of cooking V.V.Pokhlebkin wrote that horseradish played a double role in the national Russian feast: on the one hand, purely culinary, and on the other, specifically entertaining. Horseradish always gave rise to fun and jokes at the table over people who did not know how to properly use it as a seasoning. And as a result, they shed tears over the plate to the general laughter of other guests. Such people were viewed as having no home or strong family roots. Meanwhile, the secret of consuming horseradish was extremely simple: it was necessary to use it only after you had bitten off and only slightly chewed (but not swallowed!) Another piece of meat or fish.

The best horseradish varieties in Russia are known as Suzdal, Riga and Jelgava.

In a collection of walking sticks and sticks of one St. Petersburg collector, the most valuable was a horseradish stick. Despite the name - "shitty" - the cane was anywhere - thick and strong.

In Russia, there was an old custom of testing the groom. During the matchmaking and review, the bride's parents always treated him to pickles with horseradish. Anyone who shed a tear at the same time received a complete refusal.
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Useful and healing horseradish dishes

Horseradish - what is the use and what to do with it?

I must say that cooking table horseradish sometimes causes discomfort.
The fact is that if you cut a plant or pass it through a meat grinder, then phytoncides are released, which irritate the mucous membrane of the nose and eyes. The eyes begin to watery, and begins to pinch the nose.
But this is beneficial because horseradish phytoncides can rid you of harmful germs. As mentioned, it is a miracle cure for many ailments.

Horseradish leaves are used for pickling cucumbers and tomatoes.

At first glance, making horseradish is not difficult.
You just need to grate it, add vinegar, sugar and water.
But everyone who did it at least once cried then with burning tears. This is the nature of the product.
Therefore, if you want to preserve the inherent vigor of horseradish, do this: put the grater and the processed horseradish root in a spacious plastic bag, twist the edge of the bag hermetically and then proceed.

Another option: if you pass the horseradish root through the fine grate of the meat grinder, then put a bag on the outlet of the meat grinder and tie it so that the ground horseradish falls into the bag.

I also tried this option - I passed the root through a juicer, and then put it all together (juice and cake) - it turned out very finely and quickly, you won't have time to cry.

And if you want to get a product with a more delicate taste, for example, creamy or berry horseradish, you cannot do without a quality blender. When milled into a fine gruel, horseradish significantly loses its renowned pungency.

I offer several recipes for dishes cooked with horseradish.

Horseradish sauce
Horseradish - 200-300 gr. Apple. Three small onions. One tablespoon of granulated sugar, salt. Vinegar 9% - 75 gr. 4 cloves of garlic. One bell pepper (green or yellow).
Cooking method:
Grate horseradish on a fine grater. Pour in vinegar. Add sugar and salt. Peel the apple and rub finely. Bulgarian pepper, apple, crushed garlic and grated horseradish with vinegar put in a blender and grind.

Horseradish sauce
Products for horseradish sauce: 200 g horseradish, 100 g sour cream, vinegar, sugar, salt to taste.
To prepare horseradish sauce, peel horseradish and soak in water for a day, change the water from time to time. Pass the horseradish through a meat grinder. Add sour cream, salt, sugar, vinegar to horseradish. Spread the horseradish sauce over the jars, seal with lids. Store the sauce in a cool place.
Or such a composition:
350 g horseradish (root) \ 650 g sour cream \ 15 g sugar \ 15 g salt
Beet, apple and horseradish salad
500 g of beets, \ 500 g of apples, \ 1-2 tbsp. l. grated horseradish, \ 1 tsp. sugar, \ juice of 1 lemon, \ salt to taste.
Preparation:
Peel the apples and beets, remove the core from the apples, grate on a coarse grater and season with a mixture of lemon juice, sugar and salt. Add horseradish before serving and mix well.

Horseradish carrots
Day snacks will need: 3-4 carrots, 2-3 horseradish roots, 80 g of vinegar, sugar, salt to taste.
Peeled carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater, mixed with grated horseradish and salt, sugar, diluted vinegar are added. Mix everything well.
Serve with boiled, fried, cold beef, cutlets.

Apple salad with horseradish
You will need: 500 g of apples, 100 g of horseradish, sour cream, 20 g of sugar, salt.
Apples are rubbed on a coarse grater, horseradish on a fine grater. Prepared products are mixed with sour cream, seasoned with sugar and salt.

Salad of boletus or porcini mushrooms with horseradish and eggs
mushrooms (boletus or porcini mushrooms) - 300g \ - egg - 3 pcs. \ - horseradish - 100g \ - green onions - 50g, \ - sour cream - 50g \ - sugar, lemon juice, salt - to taste \ - greens (for decoration ).
Boil the mushrooms in salted water with spices, cool, cut into small cubes, mix with chopped onions and chopped boiled egg whites. Grind egg yolks with sour cream, add horseradish grated on a fine grater, sugar, lemon juice and season the salad. Sprinkle with chopped herbs.

Smoked fish salad with rice and horseradish
fish (smoked) - 350g \ - horseradish (grated) - 100g \ - rice (boiled) - 200g \ - sour cream - 250g, \ - vinegar (3%) - 2 tbsp. l. \ - beet juice - 2 tbsp. l. \ - greens, sugar, salt - to taste.
Add horseradish, vinegar, beet juice and sugar and salt to the sour cream. In a dish put in layers the deboned and finely chopped fish and rice, pouring sauce over each layer. Decorate the salad with chopped herbs.

Beets marinated with mushrooms
1 beet, 1 horseradish root, bay leaf, black peppercorns, cloves, vinegar, 3 boiled and finely chopped porcini mushrooms, 1 onion, finely chopped and stewed until soft, salt to taste, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil. Bake the red sweet beets in the oven, peel, cut into thin slices and put in a jar, sprinkling with grated horseradish root. Boil separately the vinegar with bay leaf, black and allspice peas and cloves. Pour the prepared beets with hot or cooled marinade (hot for 3 hours, cooled for a day). Vinegar strength to taste. Remove the finished beets from the marinade, drain the liquid, chop finely, combine with mushrooms, onions, season with oil, salt, transfer to a salad bowl. Serve with horseradish.

Gas station in Kamchatka.
4 tbsp. tablespoons of horseradish, grated on a plastic grater (better than iron), mix with 2 tsp. honey, a glass of sour cream, 2 yolks. Add juice of ½ lemon, dill, parsley. Serve with baked beets, potatoes and other vegetables.

Horseradish salad.
Finely chop carrots, apples, horseradish, you can grate on a plastic grater, add a boiled chicken egg, ½ lemon juice, chopped scalded onions, any greens, season with sour cream.

Horseradish oil.
Season 200 g of grated horseradish with lemon juice and honey, add 100 g of softened butter, mix. Consume like butter for sandwiches.
Seasoning from tomatoes and horseradish. Pass 1 kg of red ripe tomatoes and 200 g of horseradish through a meat grinder, add cloves of crushed garlic and salt to taste. Pour in a glass of olive oil, mix, put in a glass dish, put in the cold.

Lithuanian horseradish soup.
0.5 l of kefir, 2 hard-boiled eggs, 120 g of beets, 0.4 l of water, 100 g of fresh cucumbers, onions, horseradish, dill. Cut boiled beets into strips, cucumbers into cubes. Chop the onion, grated horseradish and dill herbs with salt, add kefir diluted with water. Boiled potatoes are good for this soup.
Bon appetit everyone
Marina_cool
Usually, I don't know why, I eat with dumplings. Or it just appears when I have dumplings. In general, it is very tasty, Horseradish with dumplings.
Njashka
and the peak of horseradish usually comes out at the end of July?
kil
And I dried the horseradish in Izidryushka, I will add from the marinade, do you think it makes sense?
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And I dried the horseradish in Izidryushka, I will add from the marinade, do you think it makes sense?

It makes sense!
Add to marinades, stew meat for piquancy. I added to pickled lemons. And just do, where some sharpness and piquancy is required.
You can also safely throw horseradish into the freezer, nothing will happen to him
Piano
I what? Did one of the shitty dolma leaves wind up?
kil
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It makes sense!
Add to marinades, stew meat for piquancy. I added to pickled lemons. And just do, where some sharpness and piquancy is required.
You can also safely throw horseradish into the freezer, nothing will happen to him
Tanya, I found him in the spring on the street, just lying in a bag, then that I did not have time to twist into "crap" and after the winter he even started to grow, well, I dried him, it was a pity, there was about 4 kg of horseradish thick roots. All winter they just lay around a table on the street.
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I specially dry a set of herbs for the marinade for the winter (horseradish leaves, dill, currants, and so on), and I store horseradish everywhere: freezer, refrigerator, dried - a find in winter
Alex315
I love horseradish, especially in dressings or sauces, but I never even thought about its usefulness! I'll know
M @ rtochka
It turns out that you can just store it in the refrigerator?
And then they dug up ... a lot
And we think how to save it.
Irgata
Quote: Admin
I also tried this option - I passed the root through a juicer, and then combined it all together (juice and cake) - it turned out very finely and quickly, do not have time to cry.

The man wrote. obviously not doing so.
Quote: Irsha
Once I decided to grind in a centrifugal juicer, I thought, yeah, now I'm just! and that's it! Nooo, uzhos, what happened !! Horseradish juiced perfectly, it turned out to be awesomely finely crushed, and the juice went well. But! it was impossible to stand next to the fucking machine !!! Already breath and heart were seized - such a thick smell went, and even this squeezer is spinning, the centrifugal force omnipresent this smell accelerates
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Quote: Irsha
The man wrote. obviously not doing that

The topic is old, now I can't say anything about it, sorry
But, through a meat grinder with a fine lattice, it turns out perfectly and quickly, provided that you wrap this whole structure in a large bag, out of harm's way. So i did
Kapet
The most correct use of horseradish is horseradish! My son-in-law (we live with the youth) makes home-made home-brew of triple distillation and coal purification, and insists on horseradish roots in it. Well, what can I tell you - cognacs, rums, calvados and tequilas - all together nervously smoke on the sidelines!
And horseradish can be deliciously consumed here:
Yuri K
The best thing a man came up with from horseradish roots is Fuck. Only four ingredients, and culinary orgasm induces 5 on a five-point scale! The only thing that can compete with our Russian masterpiece is a fake wasabi from a daikon.
shade
Peace be with you bakers!

Yuri you are a fry in the spelling were wrong

Not Khrenovina, but Khrenovukha
Zeamays
There is a damn thing.
Horseradish - drink.
Yuri K
shade, I rarely write something that I do not check several times. Recommend.
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